Fishing-reel.



No. 870,327. PATENTED NOV. 5, 1907. G. ULRICH.

FISHING REEL.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 30, 1907.

BYflAS ATTORNEYS CHARLES ULRICH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

- FISHING-REEL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 5, 1907.

Application filed March 30,1907. sum a. 365,476.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, CHARLES ULnrcn, acitizen of the United States, residing at New York, county of New York, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fishing- Reels, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to fishing reels where a crank.

is used either for directly or indirectly rotating the reel, and particularly to means for disconnecting the crank and its attached mechanism from the reel shaft and its gears so as toallow the reel to rotate free from the crank. 1

The object of my invention is to'provide a1 particularly simple mechanism to this end; one peculiarly adaptedto multiplying ;reels, placed upon the reel crank andtherefore very conveniently located forquick action. a

The invention consists in the arrangement of parts and details of construction described in the specification, and more particularly stated in the claims.

In the drawings, 'Figure 1 is a rear elevation of a reel provided with my improvement. Fig. 2 is a section of one of the side plates to show the exact construction of the crank arbor and its connected parts. Fig. 3 .is

an inside elevation of the casing plate, the side webof the reel partly being removed, Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the reel. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section of the crank arbor and the sleeve surrounding it tosho'w the engagement of the inwardly projecting pin bearing 10 with the arbor.

Like numerals in all the several views designate like parts.

My invention I have shown as applied to an ordinary fishing reel comprising the central rotary spindle 2 and-the attached concavo-convexwebs 3, 3, rotating between two side plates 4. The spindle 3 is supported at its ends in the side plates 4 so as to be freely rotatable therein, the interior faces of the side plates being formed with an annular groove-4 as shown in Figs. '2

and 3 to accommodate the outwardly flared. edge of the web 3. The side plates are held in apposition by the cross bars 4 as is usual in this class of devices, the two lower bars being somewhat larger than the other bars and placed close together to support the base plate 4" which is designed to rest upon the rod.

The ends of the spindle 3 are reduced as at 3 and enter bearing bushings 5 in the center of plates 4. Caps 6- cover these bushings, permitting the hearings to be oiled. One side plate, preferably thaton the right hand side, is cut out as at 4 to accommodate the multiplying gears of the reel. These consist of a gear wheel 6 fast on shaft 3 and a pinion 7 engaging therewith. flfhis pinion is mounted on an arbor extending througli to the outside of said plate 4 and there attached to a crank.

In detail, the pinion 7 is mounted on an arbor 8,

also capable of slight longitudinal movement. The arbor 8 is tubular and into the open inner endprojects the pin 10 carried by the bridge plate 10, which in turn ,is held to the side plate 4 by the screws 10".

rotatably mounted in a sleeve 9 through which it is i This bridge plate and .pinforms a bearing for the inner end of'the shaft, the outer end having a bearing in the sleeve9. The sleeve 9 is shouldered at 9" and a spring 11 surrounds the shaft, hearing at one end against shoulder 9 and at the other against the face of pinion 7, this acting to force the arbor-and pinion inward and keep it in engagement with the gear 6. At its outer end-the arbor 8 is connected rigidly to the crank arm 12, which extends in both directions from the. arbor and carries at one end a handle '12 and at the other. the counterbalance '12: The crankarm is lo'ngitu-y dinally slotted as-at 12 Onthe inside face -of the crank arm is mounted a slide BhaVing-a lug on its inside face which projects through the slot 12 'and carries a finger 13 sufiiciently large to prevent its passage through the slot 12 The slide ,13 has an extended surface in order to .give a goodbearing against the crank. The inner end.

of the. slide 13 is prongedor cut out in the center so as to leave two projecting arms and this cut-out inner end is adapted, when the slide is forced inward, to

engage between the outer end of the sleeve 9 and the inner face of the crank arm 12. The arbor 81 is provided with the usual square head at its outer end over which a recess in the crank arm fits,the crank arm being held to the arbor by the screw 14.

It will be noticed that the pinion 7 is considerably narrower than the gear 6 and will only engage with said gear when the arbor and pinion are in the position shown in Fig. 2; When, however, thecrank arm is drawn laterally outward against the force of spring 11, the pinion disengages from gear 6, thus leaving the spindle 2 and its spool to rotate entirely free of engagement with the crank arm. The slide 13 is for the purpose of holding the arbor 8- drawn out to its full extent in order-to disengage the gears. The slide is freely shiftable and thus immediately'the crank arm is drawn outward may be easily slipped downward between the outer end of the sleeve 9 and. the inner face of the crank arm, as before stated. It will be seen that the 1 disengagingdevice is thus constantly under'the control of the operator and adjacent to the fingers he is using for operating the reel; that the operator is not obliged to take his hand from the crank, in order to engage or disengage the barrel from the crank but that the slide may be operated by the fingers while the crank handle is being grasped by the thumb and first finger. This is of considerable importance for the reason that in fishing for game fish every second is of value, and

in the excitement of the moment it is not always easy to feel for and find a thumb piece or slide located on though I regard this as being particularly applicable to multiplying reels.

Having described my invention what I claim is: 1. in n fishing reel, a spool, a spindle for carrying the same, :1 supporting frame in which said spindle is mounted to rotate, a crank arm on the exterior of said supporting frame, a laterally shiftable crank arbor on which the crank arm is mounted, mechanism for engaging the crank arbor with said spindle when the arbor is shifted inward, a sleeve in which the arbor is supported and against the end of which the crank arm normally bears, and a slide shiftably mounted on the crank arm and adapted to be interposed between the end of the sleeve and the crank arm to hold the arbor and crank arm in their outwardly shifted position.

2. in a fishing reel, a spool, a spindle for'carrylng the same, a supporting frame in which said spindle is mounted to rotate, a crank arm on the exterior of said supporting frame having a longitudinal slot therein, a laterally shiftable crank arbor on which the crank arm is mounted, a spring for normally forcing said crank arbor inward, mechanism for engaging the crank arbor with said spindle when the arbor is shifted inward, a sleeve in which the arbor is supported and against the end of which the crank arm normally bears, a slide shlftably mounted in a longi tudinnl slot in thecrank arm and adapted to be pushed inward between the end of the sleeve and the crank arm to hold the arbor and crank arm in their outwardly shifted position, and disengaged from the reel spindle.

3. In a fishing reel, a spool, a spindle for carrying the some, a supporting frame in which said spindle is mounted to-rotate, a gear wheel on said spindle, a crank arm on the exterior of said supporting frame, a laterally shiftable crank arbor on which the crank arm is mounted, a pinion on the inner end of said crank arbor adapted to engage with the spindle gear when the'arbor is shifted to its innermost position, a sleeve in which the arbor is supported and against the outer end of which the crank arm normally bears, and a slide shiftably mounted on the crank arm and adapted to be interposed between the-end of the sleeve and the crank arm when the arbor and crank are shifted outward.

4. In a fishing reel, a spool, a spindle for carrying the same, a supporting frame in which said spindle is mounted to rotate, ngear wheel on said spindle, a longitudinally slotted crank arm on the exterior of said supporting frame, a laterally shlftable crank arbor on which the crank arm is mounted. a pinion on said crank arbor adapted to en' gage with the spindle gear when the arbor is shifted to its innermost position, asleeve in which the arbor is supported and against the outer end of which the crank arm normally bears, a spring within the sleeve and surrounding the crank arbor forcing the said arbor inward, and a slide shiftably mounted in a longitudinal slot in the crank arm and adapted to be interposed between the end of the sleeve and the crank arm when the arbor and crank are shifted outward.

5. In a fishing reel, a spool, a spindle for carrying the same, a supporting frame in which said spindle is mounted to rotate, a gear wheel on said spindle, a longitudinally slotted crank arm on theexterior'of said supporting fra a laterally shiftable'crnnk arbor on which the crank arm is mounted, a pinion on said ciank arbor adapted to engage with the spindle gear when the arbor is shifted to its innermost position, a sleeve in which the arbor is supported and against the outer end of whichthe crank arm normally bears, a spring within the sleeve and surrounding the crank arbor forcing the said arbor inward, and a slide on the inner face of said crank arm having a finger piece projecting through the slot thereof, said slide at its inner end being cut out to partly surround the crank arbor, said slide being adapted when moved inward the length of said slot to be interposed between the crank arm and vthe end of the sleeve to hold the crank arbor. and its pinion outof engagement with the spindle gear wheel.

6. In a fishing reel, a spool, a spindle for carrying the same, a supporting frame inwhich said spindle is mounted to rotate recessed on the inside face thereof, agear wheel on said spindle located within said recess, a. longitudinally slotted crank arm on the exterior of said supporting frame,

a laterally shiftable tubular crank arbor on which the crank arm is mounted, a pinion on said crank arbor locatcd inv said recess of the frame and adapted to engage .with the spindle gear when the arbor is shifted to its innermost position, a plate bridging the recess in the sidesupport and having a pin projecting into the inner end of the tubular arbor to form a bearing for the same, and

'a slide on the inner face of said crank arm having a finger piece projecting through the slot thereof, said slide at its inner end being cut out to partly surround the' crank arbor, said slide being adapted when moved inward the length of said slot to be interposed between the crank arm and the end of the sleeve to hold the crank arbor and its pinion out of engagement with the spindle gear wheel.

'In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 27th day of March 1907.

CHARLES ULRICH. Witnesses:

Fnnnnmc B. WRIGHT, Jas. F. Niicnn. 

